Work & commute · Comins

Work & commute in Comins, MI

About one in 5 of Comins’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Big Creek (8%), Mentor (6%) and Elmer (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2021 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20%

116 of 568 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 452 Comins residents head out of town to work, 116 work right here, and 435 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Comins.

452live here, work elsewhere

116live and work here

435work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Comins goes to work

Comins (in town)right here

20%116

Big Creek15 mi away

8%43

Mentor9 mi away

6%35

Elmer7.7 mi away

5%26

Clinton4.9 mi away

4%20

Alpena36.3 mi away

2%10

Grayling31.2 mi away

2%10

West Branch33.9 mi away

2%9

Mitchell10.4 mi away

2%9

Grayling34.7 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%282

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Comins commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

41%

16%

35%

41%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Comins is balanced between jobs and homes

0.97jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Comins are

551 jobs are based in Comins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Comins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Comins

551 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)54%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)24%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Comins residents hold

568 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month35%

+21%

Jobs based in Comins, 2011 → 2021: 454 → 551. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2021. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.